ostrogite

Updated: May 17, 2025

Throb, throb, throb throb, throb, throb; up he drove. He fancied himself free of all excitement, felt cool and deliberate. He lifted the stem still more, opened one valve on his left wing and swept round and up. He looked down with a steady head, and up. One of the Ostrogite aeropiles was driving across his course, so that he drove obliquely towards it and would pass below it at a steep angle.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - When the Sleeper Wakes

He lifted the stem still more, opened one valve on his left wing and swept round and up. He looked down with a steady head, and up. One of the Ostrogite monoplanes was driving across his course, so that he drove obliquely towards it and would pass below it at a steep angle. Its little aeronauts were peering down at him. What did they mean to do? His mind became active.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes